Re: Log on when the domain is not present
- From: Bruce Chambers <bchambers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:00:30 -0600
00sqroot(49) wrote:
A user has changed his domain to a workgroup on his own machine (this workgroup would have been a part of the network running on the vmware on the Windows XP host). The host is Windows XP with service pack 2.
Now he can't log on to his machine. At the log on screen he gets a message:
"The system could not log you on. Make sure your user name and domain are correct, then type the password again."
Why can he not log into the machine without the network access? Is there any way around this?
Thanks a million.
By changing the computer from the domain to a workgroup, "the user" has destroyed the trust between the domain and the machine. In doing so, he has also rendered his domain login credentials as invalid. He'll need to be physically connected to the domain network, he'll need to have administrative privileges to the workstation, and he'll need to have sufficient privileges on the domain. Then he can add the machine back on to the domain, after having first deleted the computer's old domain account (unless he's also renamed the computer).
Have "the user" take the computer to your company's IT department for repairs. I do hope that your employer is of the understanding and forgiving variety. In many companies, the user's employment would be summarily terminated for altering, and thereby rendering useless, company property.
This isn't entirely "the user's" fault, though. A lot of responsibility rests squarely upon the shoulders of the network administrator. You see, if the computer had been properly configured, "the user's" account would not have had sufficient privileges to remove the computer from the domain in the first place. Clearly, "the user" lacks the requisite knowledge to be properly entitled to full administrative privileges on the computer, or he would have known better than to attempt what he did.
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